Wednesday, February 17, 2016

[DMANET] COCOA 2016 Call for Papers

The 10th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization andApplications (COCOA 2016) will be held during December 16-18, 2016 in HongKong SAR, China. Original research papers in the areas of combinatorialoptimization and its applications are solicited. In addition to theoreticalresults, we are particularly interested in submissions that report onexperimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest. Specialconsideration will be given to research that is motivated by real-worldproblems. Experimental and applied papers are expected to show convincinglythe usefulness and efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practicalsetting.

*Abstract Submission Due: July 15, 2016 by 11:59:59 PM (anywhere on earth)*Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2016Final Version Submission: September 13, 2016

*Paper Submission*

The submission should contain scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques,and results, including the motivation and a clear comparison with relatedwork. The length of the submission should not exceed fifteen pages in LNCSstyle. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. Theymust not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference with refereedproceedings or to journals. We regard the following case as a simultaneoussubmission. Submission of drafts which contain essentially the same resultsfrom papers under review in other conferences or journals at the moment ofthe submission. Only electronic submission will be allowed via the SpringerOnline Conference System.

*Publication*

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in theLecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, selectedpapers will be published in special issues of journals: Algorithmica,Theoretical Computer Science, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.

*Awards*

The Best Paper and the Best Student Paper will be awarded. A paper iseligible for the Best Student Paper if all authors are full-time studentsat the time of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible,please add the phrase "Eligible for best student paper" as the lastsentence in the "Abstract" field in the web form on the submission server.

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